Saturday, October 27, 2012

"It’s essential that the Obama presidency continues. This has nothing at all to do with politics in that country or any other! It has everything to do with the Golden Age master plan!"

"The plan is according to what Gaia, Earth’s soul, wants. She wants a peaceful world with everyone having a fair share and everyone respecting all of her Nature realm. The highest universal council chose as a major player a soul with highly evolved spiritual status, ancient wisdom and world leadership experience in many lifetimes. That soul is Barack Obama."

"He was born with and has retained Gaia’s vision of Earth, and he has the inspiration and qualifications to achieve it. His re-election is imperative to the plan going forward because his opponent isn’t capable of or interested in making the changes the plan requires."

"We are totally apolitical and we’re NOT belittling Mitt Romney! It’s that he and those who share his views aren’t motivated to change the status quo where money’s concerned, and that gross inequity of the few with billions and the billions with little or nothing can’t go on and it won’t. Earth will not allow that imbalance to continue."

George McGovern, the 1972 Democratic presidential
nominee who suffered a heavy defeat at the hands of incumbent president
Richard Nixon, has died at the age of 90.

Forty years ago
McGovern won the Democratic nomination over the establishment favourite
senator Edmund Muskie of Maine and former vice-president Hubert Humphrey
– a campaign immortalised by the late Hunter S Thompson in Fear and
Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72.

McGovern's primary and caucus
campaign mobilised a grassroots army of baby-boomer volunteers - many
who saw him as the heir to the legacy of the late senator Robert
Kennedy, who was assassinated during the 1968 primary contest.

McGovern
had inherited Kennedy's delegates to the ill-fated Democratic
Convention in Chicago that year when Humphrey won the presidential
nomination despite not standing in a single primary.

While
McGovern's presidential campaign against Nixon was a disaster, being
successfully portrayed as "too liberal" and lacking judgement over the
"Eagleton Affair", his campaign for the Democratic presidential
nomination was one that candidates ever since - Obama in particular -
have used as a template.

Yet, as Howard Dean found out in 2004,
it has become a liability to be described as "another McGovern" –
shorthand for "unelectable".

I met senator McGovern at the
McGovern Centre and Library at the Dakota Wesleyan University in
Mitchell, South Dakota, on a bitterly cold January day in 2008.

McGovern
had endorsed his friend Hillary Clinton for president, but had some
extremely positive things to say about Obama - in fact, as the
nominating contest dragged on into May and June of 2008 McGovern swapped
his endorsement to Obama.

At 85 years old, he did not look much
different to when he campaigned for the presidency 36 years earlier -
one of the benefits of going bald early perhaps.

He was tanned,
dressed in a smart blue striped business shirt, red striped tie and navy
blue blazer above a faded old pair of jeans and even more faded white
tennis sneakers.

By his side the whole time was his ageing
Newfoundland dog named Ursa, whose eyes were milky with cataracts - she
constantly bumped her large head against his hand seeking a reassuring
pat - which he quietly provided while feeding her bits of his breakfast
muffin.

Interview

George McGovern: You
know who else had a dog like this? Bob Kennedy. He called his Brumus, it
was a big dog, it was also the only Newfoundland I've even known that
was kind of mean... he'd try to bite people and I've never seen one like
it. I was finally over at his house one time and you know Bobby had 11
children and harassed from morning to night by all those little kids
that were trying to ride him... and it spoiled his disposition.

John Barron:
There have been a number of comparisons drawn between the (2008
primary) campaign of Barack Obama and your campaign of 1972 – do you
look at Barack Obama and feel some empathy for him?

McGovern:
I do, I like him very much. I have endorsed Hillary Clinton, partly
because I've known her for 35 years - she and her husband Bill Clinton
became my coordinators in the state of Texas in '72 and so I have
appreciated them ever since then. I don't always agree with her stands –
I certainly didn't agree with her vote giving Bush her blessings on
Iraq...

I admire Barack Obama very much. I think he has the
makings of another Abraham Lincoln - and not just because he comes from
Springfield as Lincoln did - but because he has some of the same
capacity to tap deep moral and spiritual principles and to make them
politically acceptable.

I'm 85, but I'd like to live to be 100 – I
didn't used to think about things like that but I do now because I want
to see some of these things happen. I want to see every hungry
schoolchild in the world getting a good nutritious school lunch every
day under the auspices of the United Nations – these are some of the
things that even as an old guy I want to see done before I say goodbye
to this earth.

Barron: Can you give us a bit of
an insight into the thinking of the people who put themselves forward as
a candidate to become president of the United States, the most powerful
political office on earth - you campaigned twice, considered it a third
time...

McGovern: I consider it every four years! (Laughs)

Barron: Still?

McGovern: (Chuckling) Yeah, I hear that fire bell ringing every four years - I resist it, but I hear it!

Barron: What's the thought process, because it's a huge responsibility and it's a big job...

McGovern:
I think you have to be a bit of an ego-maniac to think that out of a
country of 300 million people you are the one best-qualified to be
president.

Now, having said that, you need a big, healthy ego to
be in public life, you've got to keep it under control, but I don't know
anybody who has run for the presidency of the United States who hasn't
got a rather large ego. Even the psychiatrists tell us we need an ego, a
self-confidence and self-approval, and so if you didn't have that you
wouldn't seriously consider running for office.

I know a number of
people that have been in public life that would have made a great
president but have no interest in it and I've often wondered if it was
because they had too limited an ego and not enough self-confidence -
that explains why they back away from that task.

Barron:
In part is that because of proximity, that if you are a US senator you
get to know the president and the people who run and you say "well if
that guy can do it..."

McGovern: Yes, I think
proximity has something to do with it ... in my own case, president
Kennedy named me as Food-for-Peace director in 1961 and '62 and my
office was part of the White House structure. so I would see him
frequently in the course of a week.

A couple of years of that I
began to think, first of all that I ought to take another run at the
United States senate and then it was only a short step to think 'Well
look, if John Kennedy can do this, maybe I should consider running for
president'.

So I think that proximity process has something to do
with it. Then there is the very practical issue that if you've had some
experience as a governor or United States senator, it tends to equip you
to deal with the kind of problems a president is going to have to deal
with.

Barron: Do you think all people who succeed
in becoming president - at least in the modern era - have something in
common or are there different kinds of presidential personalities and
characters?

McGovern: I think there are great
differences in presidents, in their style, in their values, in their
temperaments and their judgemental strengths.

John Kennedy once
said that he thought his greatest qualification for the presidency was
his sense of history. I would say somewhat the same about myself - I'm
an old history professor and I always thought that equipped me to take
the long-view of public issues.

I know presidents that I wish had
more of that, more knowledge of history - including George W Bush -
maybe we wouldn't have stumbled into this foolish war in Iraq if we had
had a president who was more familiar with what happened to us in
Vietnam. So yes, I think there are differences in presidents.

Barron:
There have been reports in recent times that the quote on which that
label of Acid, amnesty and abortion was taken which was from a
then-unnamed senator - the columnist who wrote that said after his death
that it was in fact Tom Eagleton who said that to him.

McGovern:
Well that's what Bob Novak the columnist said, he said it was the first
time he heard it – I don't know, I never discussed it with Tom Eagleton
or any other senator. So I don't know where it came from but I do know
that the Republican leader of the United States senate (Hugh Scott) got
up on the floor of the senate and called me the triple-A candidate –
Acid, amnesty and abortion.

In talking word-of-mouth with people
he changed the word "abortion" to "ass" - amnesty, acid and ass - it was
one of the crudest things that I ever heard one senator say about
another on the floor. I was outraged by it, and we should have nailed
those things hard, we should have had other people speaking out on it
but maybe I put too much faith in the common sense of the voters - I
think I have had a tendency to do that sometimes in my career.

Barron:
Politics is full of sporting analogies, some even talk about it as
being a game, something not to be taken too seriously - is it a game, is
that how you saw it?

McGovern: I didn't, I
didn't see it as a game – I saw it as a more thoughtful, well-motivated
proposition than you would bring to the playing of a game. I know that
players in football and elsewhere play hard and give their best but
politics at its best should go beyond that, it should strike the mind,
the heart, the soul of the people - it should try to lift us to a higher
standard and help us to do better.

I was very serious about those
objectives in '72 - perhaps I underestimated the gamesmanship on the
other side - Pat Buchanan and I have talked about this in the years
since '72 - we've become more or less friends - not intimate friends but
I think we have a mutual respect for the other person as an individual.

And
Pat's gotten more mature - maybe I have too - he's gotten more humane
and I even find myself agreeing with him on a number of things including
some of the major issues coming out of the Middle East, I think he's
against this war in Iraq - so I give him credit for growing with the
years.

Barron: How did you feel about the fact
that the Nixon administration was ultimately brought down by the lengths
to which they went in that dirty tricks campaign against you?

McGovern:
Well I had been warning against the bad conduct of the Nixon
administration, I warned against the implications of the Watergate
break-in - I warned against other things I thought were illegal and
improper and so I drew some satisfaction of the impeachment of president
Nixon.

But let me say this to you; I don't think the things that
Nixon did in 1972 were as impeachable as Bush-Cheney - I think they did
more damage to America's standing in the world than what was done by the
Nixon people. That is not to say that I feel Nixon should not have been
impeached - I think he should have been - I am saying to you that his
offenses and those of his vice-president Spiro Agnew were less damaging
to the country and I think less impeachable.

Barron:
You talked about the historical context through which you view a lot of
things and how you would have brought that to a presidential role for
yourself - what's your view on the way in which in presidential
elections it seems history can turn on something - and how American
might have been different at certain turning points.

McGovern:
It's too bad that we lost in '72...it really is. That could have been a
turning point in American history; if I had won I would have quickly
taken the United States out of the war in Vietnam, I would have gone
overboard to treat the veterans of that war more justly than they have
been, and then I would have begun to divert the enormous resources we
put in to the Vietnam War - close to a trillion dollars - to divert
those resources to things like healthcare, universal healthcare for the
United States, assistance for students to go on to higher education -
something like the G.I. Bill which permitted me after World War II to go
all the way to a PHD in history at Northwestern all at government
expense - I would have advocated something like that for students.

I
wanted to build a trans-continental railway system - the fastest, the
cleanest, the safest, the most comfortable train system in the world. I
wish we had it now that our airline system is under such strain that our
airline system is almost inoperable.

Then I would have changed
America's role in the world from a confrontational affair that assumed
we had to intervene everyplace where some rival ideology raised its
force to a more cooperative, sensible approach to the globe.

So I
think that we missed a great turning point for the better in '72 – I
don't say that as a boast but because we had that great army of millions
of Americans, well organized and ready for change - we didn't have
enough to win the election - we did have enough to fill the government
with well-motivated Americans who would put us on a new course.

Monday, October 15, 2012

Eons ago, Earth was but a thought in the minds of great beings who had set before themselves the task of creating new forms of existence. Many of these beings affected the creation of this universe, and you have termed them God. In actuality, they were extraterrestrial light-bearing energies far removed from Prime Creator. We rarely use the term God with a big G. If we were to use that term, we would be referring to the entity we know as Prime Creator. Prime Creator, in its own personal implosion through love, endowed all things with consciousness. All things are Prime Creator on Prime Creator's journey.

We see ourselves as an extension of Prime Creator — always gathering information, going off on adventures, and doing whatever we need to do to make our lives more interesting and challenging so that we can feed Prime Creator. As we feed Prime Creator through our schemes and our endeavors, we endow Prime Creator with greater energy to give to new creations.

"People who need to watch television are not tapping into the wealth of information within their minds and immediately accessible all around them. As a matter of fact, if you really want to evolve, do not read your newspapers, do not listen to the radio, and do not watch television."

"If you are able to be media free for periods of time, and you disengage yourself from the frequency of chaos and anxiety and stress and hustle-bustle and temptations of all kinds that you don't need, you begin to get clear."

"You begin to listen to what is going on inside of yourself and to live in the world and not necessarily be lost in it. You become clear. We cannot emphasize this enough!"